Racism and Gun Rights

July 1, 2010

[tweetmeme] The recent McDonald v. Chicago Supreme Court decision prompted my colleague Maureen Martin to write a few words on the late Ralph Conner, whose work on urban policy and gun rights put him at the forefront of the libertarian community. Clarence Thomas’s opinion in the case dealt with this, and is receiving plaudits even […]

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More on Daily Kos and Research 2000

July 1, 2010

[tweetmeme] Patrick Ruffini raises an excellent point on the Daily Kos/Research 2000 controversy, which is a nice followup for my discussion with Brad yesterday. The cost on that massive “Republicans are the American Taliban” survey had to be extreme: Remember now that Research 2000 never claimed to be a robo-polling outfit. They claimed they did […]

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Gasland's False Fire Water Claims

June 30, 2010

Methane is common. If you live off well water, you deal with it. If there really was a natural gas leak going on, the company involved should of course be liable for it. But despite what Josh Fox’s Gasland documentary would have you believe, all the evidence shows that’s not what is happening in Colorado.

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Perot and the Tea Partiers

June 30, 2010

[tweetmeme] Jim Geraghty quotes former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie as probably the first major establishment GOP figure (Dick Armey agrees too, but he’s an outsider these days) to agree with my assessment of the Tea Party movement: Gillespie said today’s tea-party voters were somewhat comparable to the H. Ross Perot voters who emerged as a […]

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Just Your Average Hot Russian Spy

June 30, 2010

[tweetmeme] The New York tabloids are begging on bended knees this morning for something, anything, that allows them to write about espionage sex romps featuring Anna Chapman, the rather fetching suspect in the Russian spy ring. Serious journalism, blah blah blah. What people want is the good tabloid stuff: She appears to have arrived in […]

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A Smoking Gun in Kagan Case: Falsified ACOG Views on Partial Birth Abortion

June 30, 2010

As a Clinton aide, Elena Kagan re-wrote a critical statement on partial birth abortion from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) to take the opposite view. “So Kagan took matters into her own hands: incredibly, she herself appears to have written the key language that eventually appeared in the ACOG report.”

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In the Gulf, EPA Regulations Preventing Cleanup Procedures

June 30, 2010

Making the perfect the enemy of the good, and destroying the ecosystem because of it: “Why does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand the cleanup technology available in Europe? Ironically, the superior European technology runs afoul of U.S. environmental rules.”

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Who Should Buy Newsweek?

June 29, 2010

Is Newsweek worth saving after Jon Meacham ran it into the ground? Maybe for the center-right to gain a truly national voice.

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At G-20, Europe Rejects Obama's Keynesianism

June 28, 2010

“Already on Friday, at the G-8 summit that preceded the G-20 meeting, Obama had made it clear that he did not want open confrontation over growth strategies, according to sources in the German delegation.” Because unlike America, Europe now knows they cannot spend their way out of this.

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Triumph of the Regulators

June 28, 2010

The Treasury gets new powers. The SEC gets new powers. “And Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? They aren’t touched at all, even as they continue to lose billions of taxpayer dollars each quarter. In other words, our Washington rulers have taken 2,000 or so pages to double and triple down on the old system that […]

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